Abstract
Objective: Assess the impact of a weight-inclusive podcast (WIP) intervention on body appreciation, intuitive eating (IE), anti-fat attitudes, and weight and health attitudes in university students enrolled in an upper-division nutrition course. Methods: Quasi-experimental design: Intervention participants listened to 8 weekly WIP episodes (n = 16); the comparison group listened to 8 weekly general nutrition podcasts (n = 29). Intuitive eating, body appreciation, anti-fat attitudes, and general weight and health attitudes were measured preintervention and postintervention. Results: Two-way, repeated measures analysis of variance revealed significant interaction effects of time × group, with participants in the WIP group experiencing significantly greater improvements in body appreciation (P = 0.03) and IE (P = 0.02) and greater reductions in anti-fat attitude scores (P = 0.006) than the comparison group. Conclusions and Implications: Podcasts may be a cost-effective tool to improve body appreciation and IE and reduce anti-fat attitudes in future nutrition professionals. Future research would benefit from recruiting prehealth professionals across different majors.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 710-718 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior |
Volume | 56 |
Issue number | 10 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 2024 |
Keywords
- body appreciation
- intuitive eating
- podcast
- weight bias
- weight-inclusive
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Medicine (miscellaneous)
- Nutrition and Dietetics